Lieberman is talking about doing what to American citizens? Who’s he working for?

It is safe to argue that almost every society in the history of the modern world has experienced acts of terrorist violence that make that car bomb in New York City seem like a drunk’s pathetic rendition of a recipe from the “Anarchist Cookbook.” Throughout the world, far deadlier threats are an ongoing reality, and yet America has often urged restraint in reaction to such dangers, asserting that the abrogation of individual freedom, particularly in times of duress, makes a society weaker, not stronger.

From the man who brought you Homeland Security, we get this choice quote:

“I think it’s time for us to look at whether we want to amend that law to apply it to American citizens who choose to become affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, whether they should not also be deprived automatically of their citizenship, and therefore be deprived of rights that come with that citizenship when they are apprehended and charged with a terrorist act.” — Senator Joseph Lieberman

So it was not enough to allow spying on citizens by simply classifying an American as a terrorist via the Patriot Act - we now suggest stripping all protections granted by U.S. citizenship to American citizens that break the law? What planet are these people on?

The ends DO NOT justify the means. We kill our freedom from oppression by binding ourselves in chains without respect for the bigger picture. Don’t support this action.

Fear eventually locks you into a room, alone, by yourself, unable to interact with the world around you. What, then, is the point of living if you are unable to cherish the gifts of the world? Is it better to be uniform in control of all risks? Some element of risk invades every action. It’s better to be free and free to err, free to win, free to experience, free to live than to be restricted from action, punished without opportunity to make good, and enslaved to the fear that over-bearing security abates. As Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
— Thomas Jefferson

Be fair and just, but be honest about judging the human actions of others in the context of the fallibility inherent in your own humanity. Ignore this and strip away your own right to err and be human.